@jmcgrady1 Could you help me better understand the topology that you are trying to achieve? Are you trying to combine two fabrics into one? If so, this is a bad idea. SANs are built with two fabrics for redundancy.
Fabric A ...
Cisco MDS has fabric domain separation by using VSANs. Each VSAN has their own FC Domain service. Some customers may want to segment their Windows Server traffic from Unix Traffic, or create a separate VSAN for replication.It is a normal practice t...
When Storge Area Networks were first introduce, the Server teams (AIX/Solaris/HPE/Windows) were responsible for purchasing their own storage. Because of the close relationship with the storage vendor it was only natural for the server teams to take ...
I always recommend collecting a show tech-support details | no more before you start any migration. You can either capture the output in your terminal window and write it to a file, or redirect the output to a file on bootflash:/. Here's an example...
My recommendation is to have 2 seperate port-channels, Put the 7km distance links in one port-channel, and the 10km links in a different port-channel. Internally the MDS uses equal cost multipathing. This means the ISL traffic will be distributed b...
